Hi SM,
There are some from Africa trying to find the way in, but they may not
mention it, however, training is not important much to make people
participate but the type of training and its period inside
organisation not outside. For example, I notice that there was one
African participant (not me), trying to participate in writing one
draft for the community, so was he/she encouraged by the WGs,
Directors, or the Chairs, was the draft guided? was that participant
asked to market that draft in his/her community region to make
support. The IETF majority-culture may not be much welcoming from
others point of view, I try to market IETF but need help of the
responds others may get from discouragings.
AB
On 5/27/13, SM <sm(_at_)resistor(_dot_)net> wrote:
Hi Edwin,
At 13:59 26-05-2013, Edwin A. Opare wrote:
The awareness creation should start at the grassroots level : "The
Universities"!. Train the soon-to-graduate Computer
Scientist/Engineer on the values and essence of the IETF and it'll
forever be with them even after graduation.
To elicit participation from the under-represented regions, the
universities are a sure starting point, then a lot more
industry-focused awareness creation by the ISOC local Chapters.
AfNOG has trained hundreds of people in Africa. Those people do not
participate on the mailing list. There are some people from Africa
who have attended IETF meetings. They don't participate in the
IETF. Why is it that there are some participants from South America
whereas there aren't any participants from Africa?
Regards,
-sm